The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-21 00:00:00

1 1 / 4 publication of THE SIIN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. MAILS Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 Ainerica..... ..... 1 0 France............ 1 0 Lisbon u t „ faz ii......„.... 0 1 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 12.nenosAyres.. 0 1 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena....... 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend.. ...... ... 0 1Dub1in........... 0 0 Jamaica 0 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. !Joining l3 minutes after 11 I Evening ... ...... 48 minutes after 11 BIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON'S MEMOIRS AND CORRE SPONDENCE. On the 27th inst., in I vols., Svo, with Portrait, MEMOIRS OF SIR WM. KNIGHTON, Bart., G. C. H. KEEPER of the PRIVY-PURSE During the REIGN of GEORGE IV. By Lady KNIGHTON. Including Sir William Knighton's Correspondence With the most Distinguished Personages of His Time. A Quarto Edition of this work will be printed, which will 'embellished with a Portrait by Cousins, from the original Painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher In Ordinary to Hot Majesty. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Black Diamond's second letter has, we are afraid, been mislaid. Its . great length, we believe, caused it to be postponed, and if found, or rewritten, would preclude us, we apprehend, from publishing it WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1838. The Coronation is to take place in June, but it is not yet settled, we believe, on what day. Of course, as is usual on such occasions, a considerable number of Peers wil be created, and the influence of hope on several persons may serve to relax opposition to the Government. As it has become rather the fashion to reproach public men for not speaking in time, we say at once that the opinion of the public as to Lord MELBOURNE'S Administration will be much influenced by the choice of persons promoted to the peerage. If many of those who have for feited their pledges to the people, and have no hope of ever again sitting in Parliament, should find an ignoble re fuge from public contempt in the House of Peers, the cha racter both of that body and of the Ministry will be much damagedin the public estimation. Public spirited constitu encies will hardly brook that those should be rewarded with Peerages who have betrayed their confidence. We pre sume, by the Coronation taking place at so early a period of the year, that the Parliament will rise early. Unless sowe peculiarly and important circumstances, not now foreseen, arise, we may safely infer that the two Houses will not sit long after the Coronation. Poor Lord STANHOPE ! If ever inan was a real object of pity, it is he. The simple tool of a knot of cunning and factious persons out of doors, he is, night after night, in tha House of Lords—apFarently without being sensihle of it—making himself a spectacle, which, however it may craate mirth by its ludicrousness, cannot but afford matter of most serious concern to Lis friends. The poor man's brain is absolutely turned upon the subject of the New Poor Law. He is labouring under the af fliction which, in medical language, is termed mo nomania—and a direeul affliction it seems to be, if we may judge from the symptoms exhibited by him. Every object that meets his eye—every sound that strikes s ear—whatever is cognizable by the external senses, or by the imaginative faculty, is, by a strange perversion of mind, connected some way or other with the New Poor law. This unfortunate measure is even made re cnoosible for the ♦icissitudes of the elements. The excessive cold of the last winter, which pinched the poor with such unfeeling severity was, according to Lord STANHOPE, entirely owing to this obnoxious statute, and he is persuaded, that until it is repealed, no genial season will ever smile upon once merry England ! Such being the state of the Noble Earl's mind on this question, it is not surprising that he should have entered upon a career of knight-errantry against the monstrous giant that day and night haunts his imagination. Last night was signalised by a more than usually fierce onslaught upon his enemy, but it ended as usual, in his own complete rout and discomfiture. To be serious, we really think that the country is under great obligations to this paradoxical Peer, for his persevering, and seemingly im :placable hostility to the New Poor-law. He has been the instrument of great good in eliciting from the most unexceptionable sources, and from all parts of the country, the strongest testimony to the beneficent character, and admirable working of the measure. From all quarters where a fair trial has been made, there is but one voice, namely, that while the enormous expence of the old system has been greatly reduced—a very secondary consideration we allow—the comforts of the poor have been much increased, and, what is of still greater import- Ance, the habits and moral character of the labouring pc,.oulation sensibly improved since the commencement of tne , new system. Is it not a remarkable circumstance—a circamstance that one would think could hardly fail to strike Lerd STANHOPE himself—that in the discussion of last night there was not a single Peer in the House of Lords to be found seconding, or even giving the slightest encou ragement, to his views. So far from it, those who spoke oa the question, one and all opposed him, and declared their almost unqualified approbation of tl is great measure. Nay, even Lord WYNFORD, who has been one of its steadiest opponents up to the pre seut moment, announced his own conversion on this sub ject.. GOD forbid, said the Learned Lord, that he should " wish to repeal the new Poor-law, for he thought it had done r great deal of good." W e : shall resume this subject to-morrow. On thew motion of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Dsrtmout b, Colonel SEALE, the House of Commons re solved last. night, by a slender majority of thirty-five votes' that a Bill should be brought in for permitting bonded corn to be ground into flour for exportation. • We scarcely know what would have been the fate of this proposition, had not its supporters, one and all, protested that its adoption would in no way interfere with the bread monopoly at present enjoyed by the English agri cultural interest. No effort was left untried to calm the team and appease the irritation of the choleric country gentlemen, who mustered so strongly on Thursday last to defeat M.r.VILLIER's motion for abolishing their legal right to starve ate manufacturing population of Great Britain. The Hon. .and Gallant Mover of the resolution declared his personal interests to be identical with those of the landed aristocracy ; Mr. COLLIER, who seconded the mo tion, assert ed that the Bill proposed to be brought forward Would not interfere with the Corn-law monopoly ; Mr. WAasuavv.N said the object of the Corn-laws was to pre vent the pe%nle of England from importing corn, in order that they mig ht eat it, whereas the proposed Bill was for allowing the el:portation of a certain description of corn, in order that Englishmen might not eat it ; the Right Hon. the PRESIDENT of the Board of Trade described the fears of the landed interest as imaginary or selfish ; Sir Jonw RAE REID was of the same opinion ; and Mr. M. PHILIPS, Mr. AARON CHAPMAN, Colonel WOOD, Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, Lord WORSLEY, and Mr. P. HOWARD, sup ported the measure from a similar conviction. Neverthe -I.,ss, as the motion referred to Corn in some shape or other, the monopolists could not be persuaded that it would not affect interests of which the manifest injustice, eiA therefore inherent weakness, render them so tenderly tenacious. The Marquis of CuANDOS, Mr. GEORGE PALMER, Yr. PLUMPTRE, Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY, And Colonel RUSHBROOKE, could see in the motion before the House only the motion of Mr. VILLIERS in a different form, and therefore they would oppose the Bill in every stage. Let them do so by all means. We only want such a proof of the ignora.nt and narrow selfishness of the bread umnopolists, to rouse the people of England to a full co:;sciousness of the misery entailed upon them by the Corn ws. 'With the moral short-sightedness peculiar to evil sLers, the champions of monopoly will thus fight the battle c‘' , !he people against themselves. flow stands the quest i on at i ssue between the b rea d inic; vpolists and the s u p porters o f C olonel SEALE ' S `ion,? We will explain it in a few words. As the law 4 4 , = *or e , 41116., We; T h Jl l e gimu, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1838. at present stands, foreign corn can be imported into this country duty free; but it cannot be sold with out paying a duty regulated on such a scale as to amount to an absolute prohibition, except during seasons of absolute famine. The grain so imported may be exported without paying duty, but the expense of double freight added to the original cost price usually prevents the importer from finding a profitable market for it elsewhere ; it is therefore for the most part warehoused in expectation of a demand, and often rots in the stores within sight of the famishing artizans of England, who are not suffered to purchase a pound of it at nearly double the cost for which the owners would be but too happy to sell it. In the meantime a scarcity of flour pre vails in the West Indies, and along the American coast ; but as the inhabitants of these districts have no implements for grinding corn, the exportation of raw grain from England is productive of little or no advantage to them. Colonel SEALE proposes that the corn now rotting in our warehouses shall be ground, and exported to meet the demand for flour abroad—that, instead of flinging it annually in heaps into the sea, we shall establish a lucrative branch of foreign trade, capable of finding profitable employment for a large branch of our shipping, and the working people i❑ our ports in imitation of the economical policy of the flour ex porters of Hamburg, Bremen, Dantzic, and Copenhagen. Both the PRESIDENT of the Board of Trade and Mr. Alder man THOMPSON proved by the increasing demand of flour in America and the West Indies, and by a reference to the trade of the above-named ports, that England is in a con dition to carry on a lucrative traffic in the arti cle of flour-grinding and exporting ; but monstrous as it may appear, the measure was opposed by Mr. GEORGE PALMER, from an apprehension that sailors, in such a case would be guilty of the enormous crime of preferring un taxed to taxed bread ! What care the landlords for a trade, however lucrative to the country, which would dimi nish the English corn-grower's profits upon sea-biscuit ? What matters to them the nation's loss in thou ' sands, while they are secure of a pence profit ? But will the intelligent people of England will the artizans, doomed to fifteen hours' daily toil to obtain a sustenance, which, in the absence of grinding Corn Laws, they might earn in half the time at present allotted to labour, see the question in this light ? Or, rather, will not the reckless selfishness of the corn monopolists, if persevered in, drive them at once to the adoption of such measures as must compel the Legislature utterly to abolish the accursed Corn-laws ? We iasert a correspondence between Mr. O ' CONNELL I and the Earl of WINCIIILSEA, which does great honour to the latter. To Mr. O'CONNELL it only does justice ; but the courteous manner in which he expresses himself, and the readiness of the Noble Earl to correct his error, ought to make the vulgar, little-souled, Tory scribes, who continually speak of Mr. O'CONNELL as a mendicant and a ruffian, utterly ashamed of themselves. If no gentle manly and generous feeling can influence their conduct, and make them follow the example of Lord WINCHILSEA, a selfish regard to their pecuniary interest will now speedily teach them, that the public will not for ever patronize those who continually outrage it by calumnious aftd false abuse, even of Mr. O'CONNELL. While the frank and manly proceeding of the Earl of WINCHILSEA—the trouble he took to read over Mr. O'CONNELL'S evidence—and the readiness with which he offered to make reparation to that gentleman, does the Noble Earl great honour, it will, we hope, by its example, exercise a beneficial influence over the Tory Press. The fact that the Earl of WINCHILSEA has been led into an error by the Standard, and the other fact that Mr. O'CONNELL cannot possibly " contradict the multitudinous false charges daily published against him,'' ought to be a lesson to many gentlemen. It does no credit to Members of the Legislature, that they allow their minds to be irflamed, by the exaggerated language and mis-statements of the Tory press, into a blind and stupid hostility to Mr. O'CoNNELL. The public readily pardons venial errors ; but those who found spiteful attacks on false statements must expect to be severely castigated. What explanation the Standard, which has incessantly ex hibited a bitter and malignant enmity to Mr. O ' CONNELL, will offer to the public, we shall not presume to guess. We look with curiosity for its vindication. We shall, how ever, be much deceived, if, as the Chronicle says, the Standard "be able to explain what requires explanation." Our Morning Contemporary has been fighting day after day, and week after week, with our Evening Contemporary. To expose the fallacies and refute the errors of the Stan dard has been almost a daily task of the Chronicle. It has, in truth, contributed much to the celebrity of the Standard: and if it would not have the public suppose that it has been all this time adroitly increasing the importance of that journal, or merely practising dialectic skill for amusement, it will be required to defend the Standard, and show that the casuistry and the mystification it has laboured zealously to expose, do not form, with the misre presentation exposed by Lord WINCHILSEA, parts of a re gular system for deceiving the public. The Chronicle cannot, by sparing the Tory journal, wish to share the Standard's reputation. A public meeting took place yesterday week at Dundee " to consider the recent conduct of Sir HENRY:PARNELL, more particularly regarding his absence on the division fol lowing Mr. GROTE'S motion in favour of the Ballot." The meeting was a stormy one—nevertheless resolutions, condemnatory of the Right Hon. Baronet's conduct, were carried by a large majority. This is as it should be. We like to see constituencies keeping a sharp look out after their Representatives ; for it acts as a salutary warning to all those who, allured by the smiles or professions of a Minister, may be disposed to desert the pledges which they gave on the hustings. As regards the particular case in question, we consider it as one indefensible on any grounds. Sir H. PARNELL ' S opinions on the Ballot were well known ; he had spoken out repeatedly and unequivo cally on the subject ; he had mixed himself up with it almost as much as Mr. GROTE ; he had gained votes, and secured his election, on the strength of it ; yet, when the time of action arrived, what was his course of conduct? Why, that of shuffling, time serving expediency! He evaded his pledges—forgot his opinions, overpowered, no doubt, by that drowsy, oblivious feeling which is apt occasionally to steal over Hon. Mem_ bers, when they inhale the malaria of the Treasury Bench —and absented himself from the most important division that has taken place during the Session in Parliament ! Doubtless, the Right Hon. Baronet had special good reasons for this convenient absence. We have heard many assigned ; and among others, that he is qualifying for a Coronation Peerage. The disturbances which have taken place at Lisbon, will surprise no one who has paid attention to the state of parties in that capital—the system of intrigue which pre vails—and the consequent jealousy and suspicion on both sides, when any important change is proposed. It appears, from all that we can learn on the subject, that the original cause of the disturbance was the attachment shown by the Court to the Chartist officers and soldiers, defeated by the Go vernment troops last autumn. After that event the Ministry resigned, because the QUREN refused to deprive the chief offi cers of the Chartist party of their military rank. An under standing, however, was come to between the Court and the leaders of the popular party. BANDEIRA resumed office, and affairs went on quietly till the beginning of the present month, when it was ascertained that the QUEEN refused to listen to the proposition of the Ministers for a promotion in the army, till on the proclamation of the new Constitution, she could grant a general amnesty to the Chartists, and include the officers of that party in the new promotions. The Ministry objected to this—the more violent of the National Guards took the alarm—and belieT:ng that the Court intended a second time to form a Chartist Ministry, and put down the principles of the revo lution of September, they mustered as on the first attempt with a view to control the Court. Bat circumstances had altered : the great body of the inhabitants, wearied out with constant changes, were anxious to give the new Constitution a trial—the army, too, in all probability, had been tampered with, and with the exception of three battalions, all the troops and national guards sided with the Government. A convention was entered into be tween the Commander of the troops, with the sanction of BANDEIRA, and the Commanders of these three battalions ; but as soon as the men had dispersed the convention was broken ; the arsenal battalion was dissolved and FRANCA was dismissed. Believing they were betrayed, they again collected. A collision took place between them and the rest of the troops, and in a short time the " insurgents" were dispersed. This appears to us a correct out line of the whole proceedings ; and it cannot be denied that the Court party have been greatly to blame — first, in showing a determination to promote officers who had risen in rebellion against the Constitution which the QUERN had sworn to observe ; and afterwards for a breach of faith in annulling that part of the convention which pro tected all the individuals who had taken part in the late events. The Court has never dissembled its strong desire to oppress the popular party in Portugal. It had at tempted twice, without effect, to put them down ; and in attempting this a third time, under more favourable circum stances, it must have convinced all those friendly to the Constitution of 1820, that they can place no confidence in any engagements to preserve it, however solemn, and that by force alone it can be maintained. What will be the result ? Increased hostility between the two parties, ano ther contest for the victory, and new proscriptions which, it is to be feared, after such want of faith, whichever party succeeds, will be of a very different character from those issued by the Bandeira Ministry against their unsuccessful opponents. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. There was a report current yesterday evening in the City that a pilot had seen the packet Philadelphia of the Ist inst., from New York, Lon don line, in the Downs, which is not confirmed as yet. The accounts received this morning from Liverpool state that the Bank of England haying determined to forward immediately a million of gold to the United states, produced a very favourable impression in the above town, particularly amongst the commercial classes, and cannot fail to produce a still more favourable one in America, as soon as news of its shipment arrives out. The arrivals in the port of Liverpool continue to be very numerous, and during the last week upwards of 220 vessels entered the river, the unloading of their cargoes giving abundance of employment to the labour ing classes there. FUNDS. The non-arrival of the French mail, as well as the packet from New York of the Ist inst., has caused a very great scarcity of intelligence in the City to the present hour ; in consequence of which a stagnation prevails in the operations in the funds, both British and Foreign. Consols, which closed yesterday at 9311 for the Account, Money 93i opened this morning at the same prices. Exchequer Bills, 62 64. India Bonds, 64 66. Bank and India stock shut. In the Foreign Market scarce any business doing as yet, and the prices nominal. They closed at, Spanish Active 21Ai with Coupons; Portu guese 291 30; ; Three per Cents. 19 7 1- 201 ; Brazilian 78a ; Mexican 281 29 ; Colombian 28% 2914 ; Dutch Two.and-a-Half per Cents. 54;. There are two arrivals from Rio Janeiro, one at Cowes, and another at Jersey, but they are of old dates, 10th and 16th of January. We have had the 20th January from Rio. The American Merchants are an two New York packets of the Ist i ther has prevented their approachin PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 2 per Cent. tie,l 3 per Cent. ....... 3% per Cent. — Otto Red— — I New :354 pe: Cent... IQ 1 ,8 100% 1% 1 New 5 per Cent.. ... . . —l Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire Jan. 5, IMO— Oct. 10. :Sisl) Jan. 5, IS (10 l5 1-16 Jan. 5, Irkio April Jan. .1. ..... PRICES OFFOREIGN FUNDS Au.trian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto ACCCUII Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account , 79 .A Buenos Ayres Bonds Oat: , Account — ixiously waiting the arrival of the Lust. No doubt the boisterous wea ig our coast. 1 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK tu , ua Stnea Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock ........ Oldkm - mites «................. New Ditto 3 Per Cent. Annuities, 1751... lEich. Bills, Ditto Illitta Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised — pre Bank Stock for Account 2C9y4 84 Ind!‘ Stock for Account—. Comnis for Accannt THIS DAY AT ONE IPCI,CCF.• Peruvian Bonds ........... Account .... Portuguese Bonds..—.-- ...... Ditto Account iNtto New Bonsis Ditto Account ..30 Davi, 3 per cent......... 191 i Prasian flctids Iluse.ral P.m:a, If:W.l.__ ' Ditto Account Ditto ....... • (Spanish bonds ........... ( paw h South; .......—.--... Ditto Account .. .......... C.......».» 27 Ditto Account .... C >lumbixi Bondi:4,lW Ditto Account Dtnish Panda Ditto Account ....... . tireck Ditto nondb, 1825 , , Dito Acctiont ........ Mexican 80n45, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto. i per cent {lnto Account .......-•••• ..... — 1 Neap. litan PRICES OF SHARES THIt Uuto Bonds.lBll. 2l 1 4 IYtto Account French, 5 per cent. --t. 4 per cent. —. —I ----- 3 pi:: ... Dutch, S 6 per cent 5 4 14 3; 4 Ditto Ac c o u nt 54 IA 4 D.tto, . 19er cant......... 103%'• % Diti;o Account 103% DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Shat r. iiritizh Iron Company Realdal Monte Minine Co., ttcgistere4 •i.l/. ins. (id. _ Ditto Unregistered Birmingham 'and Gloucester It way Company 15 10j; E tstern 5 5% 1.4 cat V: estern Railway k:,ompany..... 63 7 2 . - - - Brigtion Railway Company London and Blackwall Railway South,._ - ' Railway CoTnI " • 50 4414 25q ti 40% 7% 8% 4 4% 419,E onion ank. .outhampton ..ailway , .npany London and Southampton (New) Railway 5 London Grand Junction Railway Northern and Eastern Railway Company N rth Midland Railway Company 35 Asphalte ... ... 2 Australian Company 2714 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. C.F. Itl 6 Illibraltar Arnstetd an ~., kiitto. at eight ......... ......... 4, 11.5tterdarrt U. 12 6 Antwerp... Harnlrurg. , 1 B l3 14% Altona Paris, 3 days' sigh 25 70 Ditto 3 Ms. 26 0 26 10 Bounleaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 154 Petersbutgh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Berlin Vienna, effective 11 M. 10 14 Trieste......ditto lO 15 Madrid 15 Cadiz...... 35 1 New ibloOns ..... 34 New Dollars 34 .Silver. bars. standard...... 4 1136 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We hear that a new Company, to be called the Anglo-Brazilian Joint Stock Bank, is soon to be brought before the public, to facilitate the commercial affairs between this country and the Brazils. Consols have continued during the morning at 93 1 4 for the Ac count; Money, 93 M. Very little has been done, owing to the non arrival of the French Mail. Exchequer Bills, 64 63; India Bonds, 64 ; Bank and India Stock ehut. In the Foreign market the only operations are in Dutch Stocks, which recednd in the early part of the morning to 53i, since which they have improved to 541 ; Spanish Active 9. It, with Coupons ; Brazilian 781. Little doing in Shares ; they are lower. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 921. Leg,riern ' 2 Genra '26 'A Milan 3i Venice d6 Naples 38% Palermo Lisbon S:A °Kitt.° f.33i, Ri0Janeir0........... ............. Bania 25 Buenos Ayres -- Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork 154 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £3 14 6 Foreign Gold, in bar 5...... 3 17 9 Doub' - 0 0 0 Bilboa Barcelona ....„ Seville The Tory Officers, who belong to regiments ordered to Canada, and who have seats in Parliament, are, according to report, to receive leave from Lord Hill to absent themselves from their regiment, that they may attend to their Parliamentary duties. Can this be true ? If it be, will the Ministry put up with it ? CHEAP EDITION OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT S NOVELS, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS, EACH ENTIRE WORK.— Whether on fresh water or salt water, or upon terra firma itself, Captain Marryat always carries full sails, and never fails of catching the popular breeze. He is decidedly the Cooper of England, equalling the American novenst in the vividness of his description, and surpassing him in dialogue and diversity of character. His " Japhet in search of a Father" reminds us rather of our older writers,—our Fieldings and Smolletts,— than the modern school; the thread of the story is never broken, but varied by so many incidents, that like the traveller in a beautiful and varied country, we pass so quickly from one point to another as to forget the length of our journey and feel surprise when at last we come to a stand still, and find it is —finis. As usual the literary dish offered in this number of the Standard Novels is served up with all those et ceteras which seem to please the palate through the medium of the eye—namely, beautiful engravings, printing and binding. We have had occasion previously, to point out the respective merits of " Peter Simple" and " Jacob Faithful," which are also included in this collection, and shall take the earliest op portunity of noticing " The King's Own" and " Midshipman Easy," which are speedily to follow.—Brighton Herald. AWFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday afternoon, as the Vanguard steamer, about to be placed on the station from Goole to Hamburg, was coming up the Humber, an accident happened, by which the loss of life occurred on board. The second engineer was applying oil to some part of the engine, when, through some unfortunate circumstance he became en• tangled with the machinery, and before the stupendous engines of this large vessel could possibly be stopped, the poor fellow was crushed in the most horrid manner, his head being nearly severed from his body, and his whole frame completely de stroyed. It is supposed that he died immediately.—Hull Observer. It is very annoying to the clamourers of Church ex tension here, that one-third of all the seats in the city Churches aro unlet. But when a fact cannot be denied, its importance may be lessened by some daring misrepresentation. We thought the often-refuted falsehood about the unoccupied seats had been worn out : but there is no excuse too lame for those who are tied neck and heel to a cause which common sense disowns. — Scotsman. EXTRAORDINARY SUPERSCRIPTION.—We (the Londonderry Standard) have received the following morceau from a friend, the direction of a letter received in the Tande ragee post-office :—" The Tandragee Post-Office, by Bann Bridge, for Neal M'Veagh, pensioner, opposite the end of Tandragee, blind of an eye, Ireland." Yesterday forenoon the inhabitants of Fulham, Wandsworth, and the vicinity were again placed in a state of considerable alarm in consequence of large volumes of smoke be ing seen to rise from Wimbledon Common. Several persons instantly ran to the spot, fearing that a destruction might ensue similar to that which took place on Saturday night last, but fortu nately, the wind prevented its spreading. The cause of the fire on Saturday, by which several acres of furze were destroyed, is generally supposed to have been the act of some incendiary, and it was only owing to the exertions of a large body of police, assisted by several respectable inhabitants, who beat the furze with long poles, that the fire was arrested in its progress. On the morning of Saturday, two men, of the names of Arthur Bean and Thomas Marlow, were committed to prison in de fault of the non-payment of 14 5. , in which penalty they were convicted by the Magistrates in Petty Sessions at Wands worth, for unlawfully cutting furze from the common. The conviction, it is known, has given great offence to the friends of the above men, many of whom obtain a livelihood by gathering furze from the common, arid selling it in the neighbouring villages. Much ill-will, it is stated, also p re . veils amcng the poor, who obtain their livelihood in this way, since some are allowed to collect the furze without suffer ing the penalties of the law, while the same liberty is not al lowed to others, LITERATURE. MRS. WILBERFORCE AND HER ORPHANS, Two Volumes, Saunders and Otley, London, 1838. Mrs. Wilberforce is a tale not sentimental merely, but ultra-sentimental—to a degree, indeed, that defies all des cription and parallel. The heroine is a lady who, left a widow at an early age, brings up a family of children in a very respectable, praiseworthy manner, and then, when she has become a grandmother, marries a second time, for love ; and while her husband is abroad in Spain, inspires a wicked, licentious peer, with an ungovernable passion for her. She, of course, with all the virtue of staid fifty, or threescore, is horror-struck at his Lordship's presuming to think her a fit subject for seduction : whereupon his Lord ship sends over his attorney, or man of business—who, we arc assured, is a gentleman of a highly religious turn of mind—to Spain, with the truly Christian commission to ferret out old Mrs. Wilberforce's second husband ; stab him in some bye-road or other ; and then return to England with the tidings of his death. As a matter of course, the attorney, being piously given, fulfills this commission ; on which the wicked peer hastens to inform the widow that her second husband has gone to look after her first, in Heaven ; and that he shall feel exceedingly obliged if she will da him the favour to accept of him as a third She starts, swoons, " feels very sick"—and no wonder, poor thing, for a declaration of love at her age might turn the stomach of an ostrich !—but at last asks his Lordship to allow her a year for deliberation. Well, the year is granted, and then the kind-hearted old soul, who of course is by this time as grey as a badger, marries Lord Elmbridge —such is the name of this singular aristocrat—and lives with him for a considerable period ; not happily, however, we regret to say, for his Lordship soon gets tired of her, and resolves on procuring a divorce ; but being unexpectedly shot in a duel, the scheme of the divorce falls, like himself, to the ground. Soon after his decease, the whole story of the murder of Mrs. Wilberforce's second husband in Spain comes out ; the murderers are brought to trial, found guilty, and the chief assassin, 111olesworth, puts an end to his existence by drinking off a bottlefull of rank poison, pro cured for him by his own affectionate wife! Matters being thus comfortably and satisfactorily settled, nothing remains but for the author to get rid of his heroine, which he ac cordingly does by a very accomodating fit of sickness,which, seizing her towards the close of the second volume, kills her as dead as mutton in the 7th line of the 302 d page. It is gratifying to state that she expires in excellent spirits, at a good old age, in the hope of again meeting her three hus bands in that blissful region where they " neither marry, nor are given in marriage !" Such are the leading events of this surprizing story, which, in its line, is as great a lite rary curiosity as even the Rev. Mr. Dillon's account of " the Lord Mayor's voyage to Oxford." The subordinate c haracters of the tale are equally in keeping with that of the chief one, Mrs. Wilberforce. Baron Trumpery is a fine specimen of a polished Chimpanzee ; and delivers a discourse on female chastity to Mrs. W. and her married daughter Selina, which we have great pleasure in saying, is infinitely more original than that celebrated passage on the same subject in Milton's " Comus." As for Lady Wedge bury, she resembles nothing " either in heaven above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth," and ought therefore to have been married to Doctor Brittleback, whose idiosyncracy is equally peculiar. With regard to the moral reflections scattered throughout this eccentric novel, strict justice compels us to state that they are occa sionally marked by the profoundest sagacity. What, for instance, can be reore sage than the author's observation that " one crime leads to another"—an axiom of re markable acuteness, to which the only possible objection we can urge is, that it has been manifestly suggested by Thornton's sententious aphorism in Pelham, that " one shoulder of mutton drives down another !" We take leave of " Mrs. Wilberforce and her Orphans" with the respect due to their many amiable qualities, merely premising by the way, that the character of the former, novel as it confessedly is, is not altogether original, for Ninon de L'Enclos pos sessed the same extraordinary powers of attraction to as great, and even greater, an extent than Mrs. W., having broken the hearts of three French sweethearts when she was past eighty years of age, and was not only a grand- mother, hut a great-grandmother ! LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. Diet, MARCH 20.—Wind, W. S. W., blowing strong.—Arrived and proceeded for the river, the Reliance, Haselwood, from Demerara and Barhadoes. Put back again by adverse winds, many of the outward bound, which sailed on Sunday, amongst them are the Suprise, Vestal, Lady Helena, David, Regulus, Redman, Henry Davidson, and several others, names unknown. The brig J. W. Collingwood, of Sunderland, remains with damage, havin beeen in contact with the Newton, Lay qurn, from London to Cadiz. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Wind, W.S.W. to W.N.W., blows hard and squally.—Arrived the Norval; Murray, from Newcastle, from Smyrna. PLYMOUTH, MARC') 1 9. Wind, N. W.—Arrived off, the Catherine Boland, Primrose, from Antwerp. Sailed, the John Heyes, Hutchinson, from Barbadoes. FALMOUTH, MARCH 19.—Wind N.W. to W.S.W., moderate breezes. —Arrived the Shannon steamer, Mills, from London. sailed the Liverpool steamer, Lewis, for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibral. tar, with mails. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 20. Wind W.N.W., a gale—Arrived the Gipsy, Forshaw, from Calcutta; Mary Ann, Childs, from New Orleans ; Higginson, Campbell, from Charleston. Arrived oft; the Allcghany, from Charleston. Cowes, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Concordia, Kohde, and Halcyon, Leehere, from Rio Janeiro. POOLE, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Nelson packet, Nosworthy, Lisbon. TORBAY, MARCH 19.—Arrived off, the Gazelle, Evans, from Pernam buco—left on the 2d February, and has not had occasion to take in • reef during the passage. JERSEY, MARCH 18.—Arrived the Sarah, Le Geyt, from Rio Janeiro. RAMSGATE, MARCH 10.—The Newton, Layburn, from London, ar rived here with loss of bowsprit—bound to Cadiz. `MARGATE, MARCH 20.—Arrived off port the Louisa, Lewis, from Gloucester, windlass damaged, and with loss of foretop mast, jib-boom anchor, and cable—bound to London. LIB ERPOOL, MARCH 20.---The John Porter, from Demerara to Ha lifax, has put into this port with loss of sails, spars, &c., after being within 100 miles of Halifax. KILLYBECS, MARCH 17.—The Peggy and Ann, Morrison, from Ballyshannon to Liverpool, put into this port on the 13th inst., with sails split, bowsprit broken, loss of bulwarks and rigging, and much da maged, having bean blown off the coast during the late gales. The Eendragt, Gelderen, from Vlandengen, put into Dartmouth, leaky—bound to Gibraltar. The Laura, Henry, from Newport, put into Guernsey, leaky— bound to Geneva. The Hero, Orsato, from Jersey to Copenhagen, was on shore yester day near Rye. The Favourite, from Messina, put into Tunis, after being on shore and throwing part of the cargo overboard—bound to Liverpool. The Avon, Hall, from Natchez, is on shore near Crosby. The Arethusa, Benohm, from Rio Janeiro to Hamburg, is on shore on the rocks at Sandy Island, Heligoland, and full of water. PATENT BRICKS.---These bricks are made with as much accuracy and smoothness of surface as if they were squared and planed out of a block of wood. There is an in dented pannel on each of the two flat sides for the reception of the greater portion of the mortar, so that little is required on the outer edge, and the joint is much finer than in common bricks, as they may be allowed almost to touch each other without detriment to the wall. They are made in an iron mould, and their fine form and superior hardness is obtained by the clay of each being firmly compacted by being subjected to a pressure, with a lever, of about two tons l They conse quently resist the water, and are more true and pleasing to the eye . A house in Penwortham, belonging to Mr. Holland, solicitor, is built with patent bricks, and is a daily object of curiosity and interest to visitors. The bricks are about double the price of the common sort ; but as they are required for the outside or front of a house only, the additional cost is not of much consideration. While on this subject, we may ask why does not the Chancellor of the Exchequer remove at once the duty imposed on bricks in England as it is in Ireland ? The advantage would be found in the reduction of rents, and the more substantial construction of our dwellings.—Bolton Fret Press. VAN DIENIEN'S LAND AGRICULTURAL COM PANY..--The annual meeting of the proprietors of shares in in this Agricultural Association was held yesterday, at the Company's House, Old Broad-street, for the purpose of re ceiving a report from the Directors, and on other affairs. The Governor, G. Gripps, Esq., M. P., in the chair. Mr. Ewens, the Secretary, read the report. It stated that the progress making by the Company in Van Diemen's Land was highly satisfactory ; that the fallow.deer (the first imported into the colony), the Saxony rams, and the bulls sent out by the Directors to improve the flocks in the settlement had reached Circular Head, and that they were considered of very s uperior breed. The lambing of the present season was ex pected to be very good. After some discussion relative to the concerns of the Company, the report was agreed to ; the Directors retiring by rotation were re-elected ; thanks were voted to the Governor and Directors, and the meeting ad journed. On Sunday morning, the body of a middle-aged man was found on the Essex shore of the River Thames, near the Plaistow Marshes, where it had evidently been washed by the tide. It appears from the dress and appearance to be the body of a Captain or Mate of some vessel, and the opinion is, from its being evidently a length of time in the water, that it was some person who had accidentally fallen into the river during the frost._ A silver watch and some silver were found in the pockets, but no papers or memorandums to lead to a discovery as to who or what the deceased was. The body was removed to the Royal Sovereign public-h ouse , to await the Coroner's Inquest. Four or five bodies of the unfortunate crew of the schooner Pincher, which foundered off the Owers Rock in a squall the latter end of last week, have been washed ashore on the Bognor coast.—Brighlon Herald. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HULL. The Committee met at the usual hour, and the scrutiny was proceeded with. The following votes were struck off the poll of the sitting Members, on the ground of having received parochial relief:—William Holmes, Robert Graham, and John North. An adjournment of the proceedings was then requested, in order to give the parties an opportunity of coming to an arrangement which might tend to shorten the proceedings. The Committee adjourned accordingly, until two o'clock. SHAFTESBURY. Mr. HILL applied to the Committee to rescind the resolution they came to yesterday, to retain four votes objected to, on the ground of not having paid their poor -rates up to the prescribed period before the elec tion, because the poor-rate collector (Mr. Blandford) had falsely stated that the rate had not been paid before the 31st June, when receipts were produced in his handwriting, for the rate dated 24th June. Mr. JOY opposed the application, suggesting that the receipts might have been written out and left with the collector's wife, but that the parties had not paid the rate and taken the receipts till after the 31st. DUBLIN. The Committee assembled this morning at the usual hour. Mr. THESIIIGER said that it became his duty not only to sum up the evidence with respect to the vote of Ormsby, which was under consi deration yesterday, but also to anticipate as well as he could the ob. jections which he had been informed by his Learned Friend, Mr. Austin, he intended to take against the removal of this vote from the poll. This would be the more difficult, as he did not know what the nature of these objections would be, or what the ingenuity of his Learned Friend might suggest, as he had merely communicated to him that he intended to take five different objections, and whatever they might be, lie should have no opportunity of replying to them, as the Committee had decided that his Learned Friend should have the last word. This being the case, should, he through inadvertence, omit noticing any point which might be touched upon by his Learned Friend, in his reply, he hoped the Committee would make allowances for the difficulties of the situation in which he had been placed by their deci sion, and give him credit for a desire to carry the argument out to its full extent, and to leave no part of this case untouched. He trusted that he should be able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Cons. mittee, that the provisions of the Act of Parliament were so strong and conclusive as applicable to this case, that even the ingenuity of his Learned Friend would be taxed to the uttermost to make out a shadow of a right to vote. He would first proceed to the question of disqualification. It arose under the sth sent. of the Reform sill, together with the oath in Schedule B. In that Section it required that the premises should be " bona fide of the value yearly of 10/." to entitle the party to vote, with this additional qualification that ` 4 the occupier shall have paid or discharged all such Grand Jury and municipal cesses, rates, and taxes, if any, as shall have become legally due and payable by him in respect of such premises over and above and except one-half year's amount of such ceases, rates, and taxes aforesaid." The oath in Schedule B carried clown this provision to the period of the election. The Committee, lie had no doubt, would agree with him in thinking that there was no hardship in requiring the voter to pay ttp these taxes for the constituency to whom this section applied, had been called into existence by the Reform Bill, and should take the benefit with the burden, that being the qualification and condition on which they obtained the franchise. There was cer tainly a distinction in this respect between the law in England and in Ireland; but the reason for this was manifest, because the Irish registration endured for eight years, and the English underwent an annual revision. Having made these few preliminary observations, he would now proceed to apply himself to the objections which he anticipated would be raised by his Learned Friend. They were, first, that no 'aloof had been given of more than one half year's tax being in arrear at the time that Ormsby had voted. Now, he contended that the contrary was the fact, and had been clearly established by the evidence of the collector. The second objection would be that the voter was not rated, that his name was not introduced in the assessment or receipt, and that the tax was not due or payable by him. His answer to that was, that the tax was a tax on the property, and not oil the individual. With respect to the third question which would arise, namely, that it was necessary to give evidence of the collector's authority, he apprehended that the Committee would attach little weight to it, as they would find on referring to the Act that it was not necessary for the collector to produce his warrant, the fact of his being known in the locality in which he acted as the collector of the board being deemed quite sufficient. The fourth objection was that the voter was not liable for these taxes unless the demand was made for them previous to the election. Now the terms of the Act were express in this respect that the tax was dueand payable after the sth of January, and he contended that it did not re quire a demand to render it so. And now be came to the last objection which was, that as this person was the occupier of a shop, he was, therefore, net liable to the rate at all. Now the affidavit of the voter described him as occupying the shop, and other apartments, of the house, No. 77, Francis-street—there was no evidence to show that this shop and other apartments, did not constitute the whole of the premises, in which case the voter would be liable, and it would be for his Learned Friend to show that such was not the fact. In con elusion, the Learned Gentleman said that he hoped that he had now shown to the satisfaction of the Committee that these objections were not tenable, and that whatever might be the ingenuity with which his Lear ned Friend might urge them, they would not be led away by him. Mr. AUSTIN replied—He begged, in the first place, to disclaim the imputation of ingenuity which had been so frequently thrown out against him by his Learned Friend; for nothing could be more offen sive to counsel than such a charge, or indeed more criminal, of which his Learned Friend himself afforded an illustration.— (Laughter.) With respect to the first, and most important proposition, which had been laid down by his Learned Friend, namely, that the vote of Ormsby should be struck off, because at the time he gave it more than one half year's Grand Jury cess or other municipal taxes was then due, and payable out of the premises described in his cer. tificate (a shop)—he contended that his Learned Friend had not proved his case, or approached any thing like a proof of it. The Committee could not disfranchise a voter except on the clearest and most conclusive evidence, the whole burden of producing this evi dence lay with tho party who impeached the vote, the fact of the voter's name being on the poll was prima facie evidence of his title and he could not be removed from it except upon the fullest and most satisfactory testimony that he had no right to be there. He would not follow the objections which had been noticed by his Learned Friend in the order which he had taken them; he would ra ther commence with that which he deemed most important, namely, that the name of Joseph Ormsby was not in the rate, and that he was not rated. They would find, on referring to the assessment, that the name of Joseph Ormsby was not in the rate, that a person named Reilly was rated for these premises, that Ormsby had no right of ap peal, and that consequently the 36th and 44th section of the Act did not apply to him, and that he might with perfect propriety take the oath prescribed in schedule B. Lerd SZYMOUR—Do you mean to contend Mr. Austin, that the Corn. missioners could not have recovered those rates from Ormsby 7 Mr. AUSTlN—Certainly my Lord, they have only two remedies, by action and by distraint, they could not have brought an actio❑ against Ormsby, as it would lie only against Reilly; and although they might distrain his goods, as they might destrain the goods of any other person who happened to be on the premises, yet the distraint could not be said to be against Ormsby. lam really obliged to your Lordship for putting this question, for it places the matter in the clearest possible light. Lord SEYMOUR—I think I may as well stop Counsel here, for the Committee appear to be unanimously of opinion that the objections to the vote of Joseph Ormsby have not been sustained. Mr. TnEssiGEß—May I be permitted to ask the grounds upon which the Committee have come to this decision ? Lord SEYMOUI—On the ground of the voter not being rated. Sir J. It. CARNAC—Is it the usual course for Counsel to be permitted to question the reasons which influence the decisions of a Committee? ➢lr. THESSIGER—I beg pardon if I have been misunderstood. My only object in putting the question was to save the time of the Commit. tee, to ascertain the point on which they had decided the vote, in order that we might not raise it again. Lord SEYMOUR—SO I understood, and therefore answered the question. Mr. THESEIGER then proceeded to attack the rote of Thomas Kevegh, 7, Wall's.lane, dairy.rnau and householder, which stood No. 217 on the list. (To be concluded in a Second Edition.) EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY. A Quatterly General Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock was held this day at the East India House, Sir J. L. LU3HINUTON in the Chair. The Minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed. The CHAIRMAN acquainted the Court that copies of certain papers sent to Parliament were laid on the Proprietor's table. The SECRETARY read a list of the papers ; also a list of superannua_ tions granted since the last General Court. The CHAIRMAN acquainted the Court that the address of condolence to her Majesty on the death of the late King, agreed to at the last Court, was presented to her Majesty at a levee en the 14th instant, and that to the Queen Dowager had been also presented to her through the medium of Earl Howe. A letter from the Chairman to the Marquis of Wellesley, informing him of the resolution of a former Court, ♦oting to him the sum of 20,0004, was next read; and a letter from the Noble Marquis, in reply to that communication. Sir C. FORBES moved that the letter of the Chairman and the reply thereto be printed for the use of the Proprietors. The CHAIRMAN said the Directors would have great pleasure in com plying with the motion of the Hon. Proprietor. Mr. POYNDER then brought forward his motion relative to Idolatrous Worship in India ; and was addressing the Court in support of it when our Reporter left. There was an unusually full attendance of proprietors. "THE SUN" AND THE COAL TRADE. We take the earliest opportunity of correcting an error, into which the spirited Editor of The Sun has been led, by the evi dence given before a Committee of the House of Commons, by Mr. Clarke, the factor, in June, 1836. Mr. Clarke is re ported to have said, that in case a ship-owner should offer a cargo of Coal for sale in London, without the intervention, and contrary to the regulations of the factors, he would be re ported to the Coal-owners in the North, and his vessel would be " prevented getting a cargo." We stated, in a former number that attempts had been made at Newcastle, as in the case of the Eliza, to exact a higher price from ship owners refusing to submit to the London regulations—but that such attempts were in violation of an Act of Parliament, and had been successfully resisted. We can readily believe that, at the time Mr. Clarke gave his evidence (two years ago), he was fully impressed with the idea that a sort of despotic power was vested in the coal monarchs of the North—and w e be lieve, also, that these potentates themselves, for a while, laboured under the same delusion—but the mist has been dis pelled, and all attempts to evade the Statute abandoned in despair. _ For the information of the consumers of Coal generally, we will simply quote the substance of the penal clause of "the Act fo, regulating the loading of ships with Coals in the port of Newcastle" to which we referred. It enacts in the plainest possible language, " That any Mast e r, owner, or Agent can demand to have his vessel entered at the Coal fitter's office in Newcastle for a regular turn of loading—that he can have an hour to consider whet': er he will take the cargo or not—that he can demand the cargo, on tendering the amount of the value of the Coal, at the pIOCE at which the Coal he applies for is THEN SOLD ; and every fitter, vender, or agent, refusing or neglecting to enter the application, or to load the vessel in dun turn, according to the period of the API" plication, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS !" What stronger legislative interference than this can the coal consumers of London require? In ordinary cases, as the shopkeepers of Cheapside and the Strand know full well, a vender has a sort of discretionary po w er in th e di s posal of his goods, or in the opening and shutting of his shop—but the coalowner is expressly required by the statute to k e ep o pen his office every day, Sundays excepted, at certain hours, and to sell the article in which he deals to every applicant, in re gular turn, and at a regular price. We can, therefore, only again say to the coal consumers of London—" The Tyne is open to your vessels—the coal offices are open to your agents—no fitter at Newcastle can re fuse your money—no factor at London can interfere with your cargo—the cure is in your own hands—the abuses of which you complain are but the natural consequences of your own supineness."— Gateshead Observer. ASHTON-MONDAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—On Monday last, March 19, a Meeting of the Church wardens, Overseers, and Select Vestry, was held at the parish Office, Ashton-under•-Lyne, Thos. Halkyard, Warden, in the Chair. The object of the Meeting was stated to be in conse quence of a notice from the Commissioners for the election of Guardians under the New Poor Law for the ensuing year. when the following resolution was unanimously passed : " That this meeting take no steps that would directly or indi rectly assist in the nomination or election of Guardians under the New Poor Law Act for this parish for the year ensuing. And that if any individual, or individuals, be hold responsible by the Commissioners for the disobeying the notice for the election of Guardians, such fines as may be imposed be pia from the parish funds." If the rest of the Ashton Union be as bold in declaring their mind, we think the Commissioners will have something to do,. A CONSTANT READER. THE ToWER.---The arrangements for the extended admission of the public to view this ancient and interesting national establishment are in a state of great forwardness. A I number of workm en are act i ve l y emp l oyed, and a building s in the course of erection adjoining the premises occupied by the proprietor of the late menagerie, to be devoted to the purpose of an office for the issue of tickets, which, from the increased number of persons who will avail themselves of tk.e reduced charge of admission, has bean deemed necer39'.iry. The tickets obtained from this office will entitle the br A y e rs to pass the guard at the inner gate, who will conduct t;oem to a spacious ante-chamber or waiting-room, which now being fitted up for the purpose. As soon as ten or P., dozen persons are collected, the warden will then introd”.ce the visitors to the interior, and go round with them to '.lescribe the various relics and curiosities therein contained, The whole of the arrangements were last week personally superintended by the Duke of Welliugton, who expressed his desire that no pains might be spared to r en d er t h em i n every way conducive to the accommodation of the n umerous v i s i tors who w ill pro bably inspect these national c ur i os i t i es f or the first time. The above plan is intended to be adopted on the Ist or 2d of next month- We regret to learn that an excitement prevails 17 1 that important tract of our county, Dean Forest, which hay in some instances led to considerable rioting and dangv,rous affrays. The rumour is generally spread that the Govern ment intend this session to bring in and pass a law for the set tlement of the mines, and thus to rescue the forest from its present lawless state ; and it seems that speculators and ad venturers of all descriptions are rushing to seize upon th mines, in the short interval of time remaining before ler/al measures can be adopted to restrain and regulate them. 'file free miners, in whom the right of opening mines is at p „, c et alleged to be vested, are exercising their supposed cl.aims in every practical direction, lured by the prices freely g i ve n by capitalists, and their contention as to their rights ', O different mines have produced c on fli c t an d bl oo d s h ed. It. is surely nu-, perative on the Go vernmen t to put an end to Such a state of anarchy. If their me a s ures are matured, why not intre d u " them ?—Gloucester Chronicle. A few days ago, while Alme. "VI., for mer ly a dance" at the Opera, was witnessing thr.: repres en t a ti on o f Guido et Ginevra, two gentlem en d resse d i n the height of fashion en tered the box in wllich she was, and took their scats. During their stay, which was but short, her attention was completelY occupied by their conversation, and on its cessation she imme diately became aware of their departure. At the same Inn; ment she found that a very valuable shawl of per's had retired also. She directly repai re d to the Commissary of Police, 3n • gave an accurate descriptio n o f t h e two men of fashion, b" as yet has not recovered her shawl. SWANS AND E WES.—Judging from announce ments like the following, which constantly grace the columns of almost every number of every provincial paper, we apPr e ; hand the wide-spread ex i s t ence of flocks of wild swans an prolific ewes unconscious of Malthus in his - check : —Seve n swans were observed in a field in Longsleddsrle the other day.. flying in company, an d a ddi ng another list to the number of these birds which have visited this part of the country. 0° Sunday last, a black-faced ewe of Fell-breed land, served by a top of the same breed, the property of Mr. Edmund Sedg wick, Helmside, i n D ent, yeaned three fine top lambs, which with the mother are doing well. The same ewe has re duced eleven lambs in four years, eight of which are living' The Austrian capital has been much agitated by a foul murder committed on a rich widow, who had been nidte d for her saving qualities. She was found hanging in. he r room, having besides received many wounds. Suspicion has fallen on a man, richly dressed, who is presumed to have been the last person with her, and who is supposed to have', been there to bo rrow money. T he property, consisting ef, plate, jewels, &c., s t o l en f rom t h e house is valued at several thousand pounds. The unfortunate woman leas left a grand daughter, a mere child, who, it seems, was sent out of the"' house on some pretext by the suspected murderer, of whoa's, however, at the latest advice!, no traces had been ascertainee.t- On Monday afternoon, between two and th t ee o'clock, the following dreadful accident occurred at the 1 - souse of a poor woman, named Evans, living in the Wands%vortii road. Her eldest boy, twelve years of age, has for sorne time' past brought home (unknown to his mother) small 4uantitle s of gunpowder, which he put into a tin canaster. A t the above hour she went out to purchase some bread for tea, ana . gave her two you ng c hild ren the eannister to pla y with. The screams of the two little sufferers brought several neighbours to the house, when a most distressing scene presented itself. One of the children was found lying under the table quite insensible, its eyebrows and hair burned off, and the face dreadfully disfigured; the other, 8 . little girl, five years of age, in the corner of the room, be tb ' her hands b e i ng s h oc ki ng l y b urne d . Nearly every article 11l the room was shivered to atoms, and the whole of the windosv! and part of the framework blown out. A surgeon was so": for, who promptly attended and rendered every assistance but it is feared the little boy will lose the sight of his left eye.. The poor mother is in a state of mind bordering on distraction. It is supposed they were playing with the fire, when the pow der ignited. SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS, WITH STRONG SILVER EDGES, may be selected of variou s. Patterns, price 161. the Set, at T. COX SAVORY'S, W or ki n r Goldsmith, Silvers m ith, and W a t c h ma k er, 47, Cornhill, Lon d o n ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). The Set consists of ono cover 20, 18, 14, and 12 inches diameter. N.B.—The three Show Rooms contain a large variety of superior Silver-edged Plated Goods. A P amphlet, containing a Li st , Prices and Drawings of Silver Spoons and Forks, Silver Plat so Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or wil,i be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Chipping Norton, Mrs. W. S. flitehman , of a daughter, still-born. At. Kensington, on the 18th inst., Mrs. R. J. S. 'Todd, of a son• On the 19th inst., Mrs. Andrew Van Sandau, of Meaklenburg,h square,of a son. On the 17th inst., in Hereford-street, the lady of Cecil Fane, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. MARRIED. At Redcastle, Ross-shire, N. 8., on the 13th inst., James Mac^ eod, Esq., second son of the late James Macleod, of Rasav, to Mary Frances Th eo d os i a F raser, seeond daughter of Major. General Sir Hugh Fraser, K. C.B. On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. E. S. Elliott, son of the late John Elliott, Esq., of Sopley, Hants, to Eliza, th e youngest (laughter of the late Richard Turnell, Esq., of Stamford , Lincolnshire. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Maria Briggs who appeared to be labouring under the effects of last night's potations, was charged by Frederick Prested, who keeps a public-house in Great Shire-lane with breaking a square •f glass in his shop window, value 7s. 6d. It appeared that the prisoner came i n to drink last night in company with another female, and after calling for some gin, they began to fight, and were instantly ejected from the house, but the prisoner turned round and broke the window. While in the cell the prisoner made several attempts to destroy herself by fasten ing her handkerchie f round her neck, and it was with the greatest difficulty she could be prevented by the person who was pl ace d t o watch her. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she was driven to dis traction by her husband, who was at present in prison for constantly ill-using her, and after making a rambling defence res:)ecting her family affairs, was ordered to pay for the window, or go to prison for a fortnight. The venerable Dowager-Countess of Cork and Orrery, who is now in her 92d year, gave her first dinner for the season on Monday, in Burlington -street, to the Dowager- Countess of Charleville, Lady Stepney, Lord and Lady James Stuart, Mr. Milnes, M. P., Sir Anthony Carlisle, Mr. Reed, and the Rev. Sydney Smith. Her Ladyship will give another dinner to-day Viscount Powerscourt, arid other fashionables. The Countess, notwithstanding her great age, enjoys pretty good health, and travelled last week ninety-two miles in one day, coming up to town from the seat of her nephew, Mr. Monkton, Holmes Abbey, Northamptonshire. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., arrived at Bridge water House yesterday, from Oatlands, accompanied by his lady and Lady Charlotte Greville. We regret to state the Noble Lord is suffering from a very severe attack of the gout. A linendraper at Portsmouth has advertised for an assistant " whose character will bear inscrutability." THE SMALL Pox.—ln Sherborne, as well as many other towns and villages in the west, the ravages of the small pox are making frightful havoc, not only amongst the infantine portion of the community, but even adults have in many instances fallen victims to its virulence. In Milborne Port this has been particularly the case. It is a pity that the profession do not, by some well organised and determinel effort, avail themselves of the power which the law gives them to put a stop to the proceedings of these unqualified itinerant inoculators—these wretched propagators of pestilence and death.—Sherborne Journal. DIED. On the 15th inst. ' aged 79, M argare t, wife o: the Rev. RichaL ut Twopen v , R ec t or of Casterton Parva, Rutland. On the 16th inst., at Woodley Lodge, near Romney, the Eir. Lowndes, aged 54. On the 17th inst., Mrs. Mary Thomas, of Islington-terrace, itJ her 84th year. London: Printed and PubliPhed by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sua Offiee, No, 119., Strand, in the coon :j Alititlicses.—Wed.4vsday, March 21, 1828.